Delegate Photography Trip – Introduction
The Sapphire Coast Camera Club joined with the Delegate Photographic Society for a weekend of social and photographic interaction, this past weekend.
The Photographers:
Ray Nichol Tony Lockerbie Robert Lockerbie Robert-2 Deb Pearce
Lesley McArthur Lesley-2 Lesley-3 Lesley-4 Lesley-5
Laurie McArthur
Introduction to: Delegate Photography Trip
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Delegate in New South Wales (NSW), close to the border with Victoria.
A most successful field trip, we visited five shearing sheds, enjoyed a great barbeque on a sheep station and stayed overnight in the old Delegate Hospital nurses quarters.
In this and the next few posts you’ll find reviews of the photographic opportunities and introductions to the people and their work; their presentation of the Monaro shearing sheds and the people of the Delegate district.
For those who ask “Where’s Delegate?” here’s a brief rundown:
Delegate is a small village on the Monaro in New South Wales (NSW), about twenty minutes drive south west of Bombala. The road from Bombala continues south to Cann River and Orbost.
Famous as a destination for trout fishermen, fishing the nearby trout streams and the lakes of the Snowy Mountains, Sapphire Coast Camera Club’s interest was more in sheep.
It’s mostly sheep grazing country, round about, with a few cattle properties. Some would regard it as a backward step that an increasing amount of the land is being turned over to pine plantations.
Detail of a peppermint gum on Chops’ property, not far out of Delegate. Image by Laurie McArthur.
But the focus of the photography trip was the sheep stations, merino studs and for some photographers, the stark, contorted forms of the tortured snowgums that survive in a most inhospitable environment above 800 metres.
Russel Buckman of the Delegate Photographic Society, and just about everything else that happens in Delegate, acted superbly as tour guide, having gone to considerable effort in planning and organizing the trip. As the weekend progressed it became clear that this field trip was the pilot for a greater photo tourism venture. Best wishes to the good folk of Delegate in their endeavor to value add to the industry of their delightful village and district.
